Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-01-26
Scraps and fatts.

menC at Washington Still lives.
In the school at Mount Vernon, Mass,
is young man from Alaska, who has gone
there to be educated and intends to return
to his own country as missionary and
teacher. He is Only about Is years old, but
has already done great work among his
there.
= The New York Sun says eff the things
that are done by the Republicans of New
i! York, Connecticut, and New Jersey were
to be done by the democrats of Georgia,
South Carolina and Mississippi, heaven
piercing howl of Indignation would arise
Efrom republican virtue in the senate, and
i the first express train to the South would
be loaded with full sized investigating
COMMITTEE
- A party of three soldiers were sent with
two military convicts from Forth Worth,
Texas, to Leayenworth. Kansas. The sold
[iers were fully armed and were warned
that there were highwaymen on the same
train, yet they were robbed in broad day
light by the two masked highwaymen;;
The company to which they belong met and
expressed resolutions of contempt at their
conduct.
- Simpson Harris died in Putnam county,
Indiana, last Friday, aged 1O9 years. He
was born In Orange county, n. G., January
IT'S. He cast his first vote for Jefferson for
President in 1861, and had voted at every
Presidential election since. He was veter-
an of the war OF 1872. His memory remain
ed good. He talked intelligently about men
and events connected with the formation
period of the republic.
= Two men, Hamilton and Lullberry,
murderers of the Harris brothers, in Bradley
county Ark, were released from Jail at
Warren, Ark, Thursday night by party
of masked men. A Sheriff's posse which
started in pursuit returned Friday morning
and report that the murderers were carried
to the banks of the Arkansas River, where
they were hanged. The bodies were cut
Edown and cast into the stream.
Tales of heartless evictions in Ireland
Ecome by the cable. In one instance wife
was left dying in the yard, while the tenant
Fwas dragged off to dungeon. The present
/ Irish policy of the Tories has greatly weak
ened their government, and must soon re-
suit in its overthrow. England's treatment
4 sof Ireland is blot that must eventually
yield in the natural progress of civilization.
y The Republican Senate Committee has
again reported against Matthews, the col
orsd Democrat appointed to succeed Fred.
Djuglas as Recorder of Deeds for the Dis
| tict of Columbia. Matthews is one of the
est representatives of his race, has thus
irmade an excellent official, and about the
My thing that the republicans can find
gainst him is that he is Democrat.
- John T. Ross, implicated with Albert
Hawkins and Anderson Perry in the MUIR
Her of Emily Brown, was placed on trial in
The Criminal Court of Baltimore, last Fri
day. The victim was an old woman who
lived with negroes, and she was killed in
4 brder to sell her body to the medical school
IF the Maryland University, where it was
Edelivered and the agreed-on price of $l5
B paid for it. Anderson Perry had charge of
the dissecting room and received the body
from Ross and Hawkins. The prisoner had
very little to offer in his defense, and the
case was given to the jury at half-past 10
O'Clock Friday night. After half an hours
! Edeliberation verdict of murder in the first
degree was brought in.
- Col. William Preston johnson has been
making speech to the knights of Labor
of New Orleans, in which he dWelt special
" on the fact that war had been declared
between labor and capital, and that the con-
fiict could only terminate in one of the fol-
Towing three ways: The triumph of capital,
which would be disastrous to all classes; the
victory of labor, which means revolution, an
/ archy, bloodshed, and afterwards redistri-
button of property and more nHsrule and
national destruction, or by a cessation OF
hostilities and peaceful adjustment on the
basis of justice, both sides recognizing that
the law of Christ, which is doing unto
! others as you would have them do to you,
! is the only law upon which communities
.mnst rest to be permanently prosperous
and happy.
- Ithas been stated that the silk rope with
(which Cluverius was hanged was made as a
compliment to the culprit, but such is not the
4 case. The rope was made by E. j. Brown,
: s0f old noaEpr yvhn
evidently intended to turn to good account
the bright but fatal product. The silk con-
sumed in its manufacture cost $45, and an
agreement was made that after the rope
had been used it was to be returned to Mr..
Brown. This was done, and he at once cut
quite number of short pieces from it and
was disposing of them at a lively rate when
the city sergeant stepped in on the .specuia-
/ tor and stopped further proceedings by
| taking the rope and paying Brown for it.
This was done because the sale of it as pro-
-.posed was very distasteful to large num-
( Der of Richmond's citizens.
- Senator Sherman has offered in the Sen
ate an amendmentto be proposed to the sun
i dry civil bill, to appropriate $4,000 to put
new fences around the cemeteries in which
/ the Confederate dead are buried, near Co.
| lumbus, Ohio, and on Johns Island. Ac-
companying the. amendment is an extract
from recent annual IIleSSSEe OF IOVernOr
Foraker, in which he refers 70 the dilapida-
ted condition of the fences and the neglected
estate of the grounds, and adds: "The hatred
8 and detestation that all loyal people must
I and should ever entertain for the destructive
political doctrines that these men fought for,
] ought not to stand in the way of either cor
dial feeling toward the living who have
abandoned such hereses or proper regard
! and Christian respect for the dead, who, al
though wrong, yet heroically and valorous-
ly contended for the convictions they en-
tertained."
Fifteen years ago land could be pur-
chased within mile of the business centre
of Chattanooga, Tenn, for from $50 to $50
an acre. But the rapid growth in business
and population in that city is sending real
estate up in value. On Tuesday last a sym
dicate of capitalists from Ohio, Kentucky
and Mississippi purchased tract of 200
acres in the suburbs of Chattanooga, paying
! for it $5O0.OO0, or at the rate of $500 per
acre. The purchasers will make extensive
/ improvements on the property, and will de-
velop many sites for manufacturing and
business purposes. On the same day the
representative of several English bankers
purchased 100 acres of land some distance
from the city limits for 100000. Another
sale was site for huge steam forge; which
will give employment to large number of
hands.
Officers of high rank in the army are
B confident that no action will be taken in the
: matter of the appointment Of a new chief
signal officer for the present. 1t will be i'm
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